Jhenna Quinn Lewis

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Finches with Audubon
12 x 24

Celadon with Bluebird  
14  x 18

Titmouse with Chess Piece
9 x 12

Dominos and Chat 
9  x 12

Danisch vase, mah jong

December  
12  x 16

Cardinal on Green  
8 x 10

Bunting and Vase  
18 x 24

Still-life with Goblet, Finch and Plums  
18 x 24

Cockatiel  
22 x 40

Summer Apricots
9 x 12

Comice Pears with Antique Cloth
31 x 38

SOLD
Plums and Cloth
12 x 16

"I seemed to be born with a love and appreciation for art and nature, or maybe a better word to describe this is awe. Art is a universal language that can teach, or perhaps touch, us about ourselves and our world. It is a part of all our lives and surrounds us even if we don't notice or understand it.

I have always had the need to create through images on canvas. The need is to foster an understanding of nature that is reflective, which suggests the presences of some unacknowledged mystery. A painting is a moment held in time: artists strive to capture something in that moment and give it eternity. For me, paintings have a meditative quality. Through the manipulation of composition, subject matter, color, light, and shading, I try to bring out a subtle inherent quietness that the viewer can be drawn into. My hope is to create a state of mind. I have always lived in two separate worlds that unite the real and the imagined.

What are the everyday items and scenes that are a part of our lives, but that we lightly pass over, take for granted, or completely ignore? For example, I try to take the ordinary and make it extraordinary through the play of light across a pear or flower in such a way that the observer's senses will remember the image and perhaps delight in seeing an ordinary piece of fruit or a plant in a new way when next they see it. To deepen the viewing experience I may drape a cloth across the table with a ray of translucent light creating an inner glow to the painting. Finally, even the darkness and shadows can beckon us to experience how the images, like us, can be engulfed by the unseen into a kind of formless obscurity. I believe that that there is beauty in everything: in the light, in the dark, and in the shadows.

For me, there is an unacknowledged mystery in all things. We need but to bring it forth. We need but to honor this. For in the experience of the mystery of life we are able to create solitude. I like to create solitude."

Jhenna has recently moved to the Rogue Valley with her husband and children. They formerly owned the Candystick Gallery in Ferndale, CA. Jhenna now has more time to paint, mother, and pursue other life interests. Her method of oil painting is traditional, and time consuming - sanding between each of many layers of paint, thereby creating the depths of light and dark that we see.

Some of Jhenna's "Pears" are now included in the art collection at Bear Creek Corporation, in Medford, OR